A man convicted of peeping through windows at women in Towson on Tuesday publicly thanked Baltimore County police for arresting him.
“It brought me to the realization that I had a problem and I needed to seek help,” Clinton Gardner, 39, of Towson, told Baltimore County Circuit Judge Robert Cahill.
After hearing Gardner?s comments, the judge said he believed Gardner had experienced “an epiphany” and now realized spying on women was wrong.
“There is a bona fide commitment to change here,” Cahill said. “… The offenses here did not involve physical harm to anyone, but they did involve a rather serious breach of privacy. People expect to be left alone in their homes.”
Cahill sentenced Gardner to two months in jail, followed by three years of supervised probation.
He was ordered to stay away from the student-populated Kenilworth at Charles Apartments and the Cromwell Valley Apartment complex.
Police arrested Gardner in November after detectives spotted him walking along Charles View Way in the Kenilworth apartments early one morning.
Gardner admitted he peeping into and exposing himself to women in the apartments over the past year, police said.
